George Bernard Shaw Quotes

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

The individual is the brain, not the heart.

I love the human mind.

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.

A computational device is incapable of developing a mind. We got consciousness not just by being clever.

Evolution of consciousness is the central motive of terrestrial existence.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

When you start really thinking about the potential of the human mind and its ability to create an entire world while you're sleeping, I come away feeling like our minds are not remotely understood by science.

Consciousness begins when brains acquire the power, the simple power I must add, of telling a story.

The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature's genitals.

From now on you're going to have to think. There's a reason why we're born with brains in our heads, not rocks.

We have our own brains.

What differentiates human from lower-animal consciousness is time. You can't explain the concept of "tomorrow" to your dog. Our consciousness is dominated by time - We're constantly running simulations of the future. Our brain is a prediction machine. The hallmark of intelligence, indeed of genius, is the number and complexity of the feedback loops we use in predicting the future.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

It is a popular fact that nine-tenths of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary gray goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.